Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Switching between the different combinations of effects and processors produced the same results , and apart from inventing some really stupid effect chains I found plenty of interesting combinations ; these could be mixed with the dry signal without losing any of the basic guitar sound .
2 It has , of course , many other characteristics , of which companionship and mutual support is an important one , but the characteristics which distinguish it from all other relationships can only be met by two persons of the opposite sex .
3 It is busy , open all hours , and full of shops which sell anything from ancient Chinese herbs and medicines to electronic gadgetry .
4 Its circulation had grown enormously as immigrants flooded into Tollemarche , and it had expanded into the shops which flanked it on either side .
5 Thank goodness we had tutors who helped us to some extent and who seemed quite accustomed to listening to tales of woe .
6 ‘ I know lads who got theirs at eighteen in Cyprus . ’
7 The membership of SDS grew rapidly from about 4000 in 1965 to some 100,000 three years later , and throughout this period it had much larger numbers of supporters who identified themselves in some way with ‘ the Movement ’ .
8 we use the same words we use them in different in the different area accents but i that 's all it is .
9 Since DOL is hopefully making a comeback this evening for the reserves it leads me to this question .
10 Furthermore , there are particular reasons which impel me to that conclusion .
11 The following case example is of a patient who was admitted to a psychiatric hospital because of reasons which placed her in both categories ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) .
12 As is usual among deviations , most men and a good many women have some fetish object or objects which provide them with sexual stimulation and can increase the enjoyment of sexual activity .
13 Explosions of some sort were almost unavoidable if the principle of nationality was to be extended beyond the states which embodied it in 1880 .
14 Baker 's sanitary reports on the cholera in Tyneside , and on housing and environmental conditions in Leeds , included a use of maps which brought him to wider notice .
15 I think it 's important to understand that all my work is about demystification — both of the self and of the medical and family discourses which defined me for much of my life .
16 Over the years , the economic pressures have grown , partly as a result of government policies which committed it to high levels of spending , and partly because of external factors such as declining terms of trade and smaller than anticipated flows of aid after independence .
17 In truth , one can remember once , in the professional 's shop at Augusta , finding the great Gary Player thoughtfully fingering a set of Cleveland woods which reminded him of some Ben Hogan woods he had once owned .
18 After some wandering among nurseless cradles I recognized him by some unsuspected instinct — a pallid moustached old baby .
19 We 've argued that that would stimulate migration as opposed simply to accommodate past trends , so we 've argued that , but the the problem for West Yorkshire well for Leeds in particular is that the brown field sites we have , the regeneration that we need is not of sites which would readily accommodate housing , they 're not sites which lend themselves as nice places to live .
20 Similarly , science fiction motifs give way in this novel to fantasy elements which maintain it at one remove from realism but prevent it from falling into a generic category .
21 One of the circumstances which drove me to these experiments will be familiar to most home cooks .
22 This is the case for the English king 's financial archives which provide us with much information on the sums collected , how they were spent , and the organisation which lay behind that expenditure .
23 Stapleton brought the Leeward Islands together again by 1682 and the Codrington family managed to keep them united until after the end of the seventeenth century , but the general tendency to fragment into separate colonies seemed irresistible to people on the islands , no matter how foolish it seemed to British administrators who saw them as tiny communities that on a map of the world looked very close together .
24 You have things like heredity , marriages , divorces , erm some way of life which has to do with Islamic doctrine that you do and some dispute happens , you take it to the Islamic courts and they have religious judges who take it in that context and they go according to the laws of Islam .
25 Both were manned by a gentry proud of its local influence , provincial patriots who devoted themselves to improving roads and preserving historical monuments .
26 There were many shrewd operators who backed him for last season 's Grand National and they will be doing so again .
27 He was a Georgian by birth ; did he , then , share the fierce nationalistic pride of his fellow-countrymen , or had his orphanage moulded him into one of the bland , rootless vegetables who regarded themselves as Soviet citizens ?
28 But before doing so , he contacted the solicitors who represented him in 1981 and they arranged for the crown court appearance .
29 It was just that he had strange ideas which took him into bad company .
30 Yet not before he had been thoroughly frightened by the ghosts who warned him of terrible judgment .
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